Anupama Upadhyaya and Mithun Manjunath clinch national badminton singles titles | Badminton News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Anupama Upadhyaya and Mithun Manjunath posted contrasting victories in their respective finals to clinch the women’s and men’s singles titles in the 84th senior national badminton championship at the Balewadi stadium in Pune on Tuesday.Former world junior no. 1 Anupama fought hard to get the better of Aakarshi Kashyap 20-22, 21-17, 24-22 in an hour and 18 minutes in the women’s singles final before Mithun dominated the men’s singles title clash against Priyanshu Rajawat for an easy 21-16, 21-11 victory in just 38 minutes.Top seed Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly were crowned the new women’s doubles champions while T Hemanagendra Babu and Kanika Kanwal clinched the mixed doubles crown.Men’s doubles combination of S Kushal Raj and S Prakash Raj wrapped up the proceedings to c...